Rafael Caro Quintero, in the Puente Grande prison, in Jalisco, in a file image.cuartoscuro
Rafael Caro Quintero has been captured.
Who was the historical leader of the narco during the eighties and nineties, on which the highest reward of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) weighed for a criminal, has been arrested this Friday, according to sources from the Marina to EL PAÍS.
One of the founders of the legendary Guadalajara cartel, later called the Sinaloa cartel, has been arrested for the second time.
In 1985 he went to jail after the brutal murder of an infiltrated DEA agent, Kiki Camarena, and in 2013 he was released in Mexico due to a formal defect.
The United States never forgave the crime and pressured the Mexican authorities to recapture him.
The old drug lord, who far from retiring, had a cartel in his name, returns to prison this Friday at 69 years old.
Unlike other drug trafficking leaders who have not yet been arrested, Caro Quintero's days were always linked to the powerful DEA's thirst for revenge.
Few dared to go as far as the founders of the Guadalajara cartel, the father of all the cartels that were born later: Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, the ringleader and the only one who was still in prison;
Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo,
Don Neto
;
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When they were the undisputed leaders of drug trafficking to the United States, they murdered Kiki Camarena.
And the agency did not forgive that Caro Quintero managed to avoid what was left of grief.
The outstanding debt he had for the crime that landed him in jail in 1985 haunted him night and day.
The sentence against him considered it proven that on February 7 of that year, when Camarena left the US consulate in Guadalajara, he was kidnapped by police and handed over to the Guadalajara cartel.
On a farm belonging to the organization, the American policeman was tortured over and over again while a doctor kept him alive.
When his body was recovered, it was discovered that he had been castrated and buried alive.
In 2013 an error in a sentence set him free and before the justice had time to repair that failure, the capo had already gone into hiding.
From his lair, he offered an interview to the magazine
Proceso
where he stated: “I am no longer a danger to society.
I don't want to know anything about drug trafficking.
If I did something wrong, I already paid for it, "he said after denying his participation in Camarena's death.
In Sonora, Caro Quintero has returned to the only thing for which members of the drug trade —and especially of that generation— were born: to traffic.
The sign of the municipality of Caborca is associated with his name.
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